Mommy and Isaac riding a camel!
I am a little late at sharing this story, but it is too good not to share with you! Isaac and I had the opportunity to ride a camel after Christmas. We went with a group of short term workers here at the orphanage, and it felt very touristic. If you want to come visit us in Chad, we now can possibly offer you a camel ride (sounds adventurous and exotic, huh?!) and even a climb up one of the mountains outside of town at sunset (romantic, maybe??). Anyways, Judah and Josh walked next to us as our camel took us through the desert. The ride lasted about 30-45 minutes and was comparable to a horse ride, just higher. Oh, and our camel liked to stop and reach up in the tree branches above to get a snack here and there. We had to hold on tight, but really the actual ride was quite relaxing and would have put Isaac to sleep if we had continued much longer. We had a bought of excitement in our group as another camel who was a bit angry threw off a boy and his father. They were ok, and even got back on another camel. The camel herders (I don’t know what they are called) calmed the angry camel and got him to kneel down to the ground, but 10 minutes later we saw him running fast through the desert! It began to feel like a scene from an old western movie when a man on horseback chased the camel down at full speed right in front of us! That was surely an experience we won’t soon forget!